Boundaries in space and time: Iconic biases across modalities

• Published in: Cognition Vol. 210; p. 104596
• Main Authors: Kuhn, Jeremy, Geraci, Carlo, Schlenker, Philippe, Strickland, Brent
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 01.05.2021; Elsevier Science Ltd; Elsevier
• Subjects: 20th century; Balls; Bias; Boundaries; Cognitive biases; Count/mass; Count/Mass distinction; Event and object boundaries; Experiments; Gestures; Grammatical categories; Humanities and Social Sciences; Language; Language universals; Linguistics; Mapping; Nouns; Property; Referents; Sign language; Spoken language; Syntactic processing; Telicity; Telicity; Sign language; Cognitive biases; Count/mass; Event and object boundaries; Language universals

The idea that the form of a word reflects information about its meaning has its roots in Platonic philosophy, and has been experimentally investigated for concrete, sensory-based properties since the early 20th century. Here, we provide evidence for an abstract property of ‘boundedness’ that introdu...